Asper Nation: Canada’s Most Dangerous Media Company

These two new books about the Asper and Rogers media empires won’t get anywhere near as much attention as the new memoirs from Jean Chrétien and Brian Mulroney or Naomi Klein’s latest work. However, they ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Forage

By Rita Wong

Forage, Rita Wong’s second collection, is poetry that attacks modern power politics and attempts to modernize traditional poetics without stripping them of their value. These are poems that find their voice in the didactic. Indeed, ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn’t Seem to Care)

By William Marsden

Books about ecological catastrophe can be real downers, but a sense of humour and lively writing make William Marsden’s entry into the suddenly popular category of inconvenient truths well worth a look. A journalist with ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Empty Casing: A Soldier’s Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege

By Fred Doucette

Literature investigating the experience of soldiers in war zones is a well-explored genre. Whether it be the First or Second World War, Korea, or Vietnam, readers have been fully exposed to the effect this kind ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Cambodia Calling: A Memoir from the Frontlines of Doctors Without Borders

By Richard Heinzl

Among the frontline troops of international humanitarian aid, few share the rugged reputation of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an NGO that invites doctors to leave their comfortable offices and salaries for low-paying medical positions in ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech

By Craig Silverman

Since 2004, Montreal-based journalist Craig Silverman has collected and posted the most egregious media corrections on his website RegretTheError.com. In Regret the Error the book, Silverman not only assembles the highlights of this collection, but ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, September 13 – November 6, 1944

By Mark Zuehlke

Best known for his meticulously detailed accounts of Canadian Second World War battles in Normandy and Italy, historian Mark Zuehlke has brought to life a woefully under-recorded chapter in Canadian history in the excellent Terrible ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Toronto: A City Becoming

By David Macfarlane, ed.

After barely surviving a forced amalgamation, a mayor notorious for bone-headed remarks, and the SARS outbreak, Toronto is having a renaissance of sorts. For the last few years, the civic discourse in Toronto has veered ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

An Apple a Day: The Myths, Misconceptions and Truths About the Foods We Eat

By Joe Schwarcz

In An Apple a Day, Joe Schwarcz, who holds a PhD in chemistry and lectures on food science at McGill University, aims to guide consumers in their dietary decisions by casting the light of science ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Albert and the Others

By Guy Delisle

Possibly the most pleasant comic-book diversion to come along in the last little while is Albert and the Others by émigré Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle. Albert is a companion volume to Delisle’s Aline and the ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Graphica

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